I’ve written before about what it means to be an architect: determining direction and defining incremental steps to get there. But what if you don’t know…
I see a clickbait-y tweet just about every day regarding how difficult and complex it is to build web applications today, particularly on the frontend. While I…
Few things accelerated my understanding of code, and what I could do with it, faster than Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs). ASTs are data representations of…
My primary focus the last 6 years at Salesloft has been architecting our main frontend application. The project began solely as a plan to transition us from…
Ever been in this situation? You make an innocuous change to your authentication logic only to realize upon deploy that it invalidated all your users’…
We had a problem: our test runs in CI were too slow. This was in our primary frontend application at Salesloft, a codebase nearing one million lines of code.…
If you haven’t heard of it, Rspack is a Rust-based drop-in replacement for Webpack. It hasn’t hit its v1 release yet, but it’s already a favorite tool in my…
At Salesloft, our primary frontend application has nearly 3,000 test suites containing over 20,000 tests. That’s a lot of time spent running tests in CI and…
Howdy again! We’re in the final mile now. We got the individual blog post pages working last time. In this final installment, we’ll add a few more pages,…
Welcome back! Last time we walked through generating a new site, getting the blog post index page working, and adding the talks page. This time we’ll look at…
My website hasn’t gotten much attention the past few years. In 2020, I slowly migrated from Gatsby to Next.js. I even had a partially-written blog post about…
A few weeks ago, I was working on a project where I needed to get all the flattened keys from a deeply nested object as a string union. I looked around the…
I am admittedly a big fan of Tailwind, but for one primary reason: it makes me more productive. It may do the same for you. It may not. Perhaps you love the…
At my job, we’re supposed to keep our computers locked if we ever walk away from them, a good practice wherever you are. But I constantly found myself…
Sophie Alpert and Dan Abramov showcased hooks, React’s newest upcoming feature, at ReactConf this year. At first glance, I thought they seemed strange and…
A few weeks ago, Todd Sharp wrote an article called “Simulating Texas Hold’em in Groovy” where, no surprise, he simulated a Texas Hold’em hand in Groovy. At…
Spoiler alert: I’m a big fan of Gatsby. I’ve worked with it multiple times and I’m continually impressed with its power and flexibility. For those who aren’t…
Last week, 3blades - the company I work for - launched our new website using Next.js/Now. In the process, we moved our company blog from our main website to…